The Wall Street Journal has a report this morning on where college students go after graduating. It is HERE.
The bottom line: Rural areas (such as ours) are losing out. I think it’s a marketing problem, along with ongoing weaknesses in economic development leadership.
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Here’s a more hopeful view, even if it isn’t borne out by the college data: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/opinion/the-american-renaissance-is-already-happening.html
And the Times gets to the crux of the matter: “A second common thread for these cities was that they were often led by business leaders who were both entrepreneurial and civically minded. In these places if you become successful, it is expected that you will become active in town life.”
My wife went to Berkeley for our niece graduation from Cal over the weekend. She says she is staying in San Francisco area after getting her degree.
Meanwhile, over on Rebane’s blog, the “old white crackers” (their words, not mine) are duking it out:
“Boardman is a old white cracker behind the gates of white suburbia. LOL! Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 15 May 2018 at 09:03 AM”
Eating their own. I love it.
As Helen Reddy would put it: They are “living in a world of make-believe.”